What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

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.