The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.