We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.