It is pleasant to recall past troubles.
Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.
Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.
Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.