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

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.