“Honesty is admired, and starves.”

“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”

“Rare is the union of beauty and purity.”

“For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.”

“I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.”

“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”

“The smell of profit is clean and sweet whatever the source.”

“No man ever became very wicked all at once.”

“Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.”

“One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.”

“We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.”