Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

There is always something new coming out of Africa.

What we expect, that we find.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.