Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.