If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

To understand is to forgive.

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.