In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.