His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...

Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.