One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.