Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.
What you can become you are already.
Religion is the highest vanity.
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.
What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.