Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.