A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.