The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
They make solitude, which they call peace.
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.