"Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse."

"It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts."

"It is as impossible to please all men as to make a coat for the moon."

"Argument is the worst enemy of truth."

"The only way to retrieve the credit of the nation, is to pay off the public debts."