It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.