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

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

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

He who fears not, is to be feared.

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.