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.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

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