Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

Education made us what we are.

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

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

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

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