Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.