We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
Prosperity makes few friends.
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.