Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.