In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.