Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Keep conscience clear, then never fear.
Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.
Praise little, dispraise less.
In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.