Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.