I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.