Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.