“Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.”

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.