The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.