How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Virtuous men alone possess friends.
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.