In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
No one dances sober, unless he is insane.
They condemn what they do not understand.