The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

He who blushes is already guilty.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.