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

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

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.

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.