It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

Even knaves may be made good for something.

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.