There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.