Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.