Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

Genius speaks only to genius.

Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.