Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

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.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

Those who can bear all can dare all.

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.