Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.