Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

There is no magician like love.