Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.