The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.