Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.