There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.
Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
Sacrifice life to truth.
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.
A person who can break wind is not dead.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
Anticipation and Hope are born twins.
The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that we can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
A born king is a very rare being.