The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.