Jean de La Bruyere

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Jean de La Bruyere

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

Jean de La Bruyere

A judge’s duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

Jean de La Bruyere

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

Jean de La Bruyere

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

Jean de La Bruyere

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

Jean de La Bruyere

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Jean de La Bruyere

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

Jean de La Bruyere

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

Jean de La Bruyere

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

Jean de La Bruyere