A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

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