It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.