If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Patriotism corrupts history.