I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.