The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

The smallest errors are always the best.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.