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.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

We must cultivate our own garden.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.