Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Solemnity is the shield of idiots