Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

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.

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

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

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

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.