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.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.