Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.

What isn’t clear, isn’t French.

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.