Fashion Is Gentility Running Away From Vulgarity

An Accomplished Coquette Excites The Passions Of Others, In Proportion As She Feels None Herself.

Political Truth Is Libel; Religious Truth, Blasphemy.

The Player Envies Only The Player, The Poet Envies Only The Poet.

Want Of Principle Is Power. Truth And Honesty Set A Limit To Our Efforts, Which Impudence And Hypocrisy Easily Overleap.

To Be Remembered After We Are Dead, Is But Poor Recompense For Being Treated With Contempt While We Are Living.