This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.