The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

There is moderation even in excess.

As for our majority... one is enough.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.