Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Education made us what we are.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.