Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

Trust your heart rather than your head.

In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

By doing good we become good.