Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.