In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.