Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.