The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.