One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.