If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.