Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

The passions are the voice of the body.

There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.