Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Prosperity makes few friends.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Few maxims are true in every respect.

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

Those who can bear all can dare all.