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.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.