With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.