One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.