Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.