Bachelors' Wives And Old Maids'

We Need To Be Just Before We Are Generous, As We Need Shirts Before Ruffles.

A Man Is Not Necessarily Intelligent Because He Has Plenty Of Ideas, Any More Than He Is A Good General Because He Has Plenty Of Soldiers.

Bachelors' Wives And Old Maids' Children Are Always Perfect.

Nature In Causing Reason And The Passions To Be Born At One And The Same Time Apparently Wished By The Latter Gift To Distract Man From The Evil She Had Done Him By The Former, And By Only Permitting Him To Live For A Few Years After The Loss Of His Passions Seems To Show Her Pity By Early Deliverance From A Life That Reduces Him To Reason As His Sole Resource.

Only The History Of Free Peoples Is Worth Our Attention; The History Of Men Under A Despotism Is Merely A Collection Of Anecdotes.