Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

Always the same thing.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Religion is the pious worship of God.