It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We are in want of a terrible political fever, to carry off our foul humors.

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.