Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.