We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
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.