Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

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

There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.

It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.

Death makes us all equal.

It is the fine rain that soaks us through.

[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.