Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.