Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.