Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

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

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.