A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have