Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.

All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.