No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.