We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.