Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.