If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.