When the candles are out all women are fair.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.