Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.