One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.