Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation; but when we receive it, we are lowered.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

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