Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.