Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

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

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

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

What isn’t clear, isn’t French.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.