Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.