Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

He who fears not, is to be feared.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.