There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?

He who blushes is already guilty.

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".