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

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

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

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.