When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.