No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
Justice satisfies everybody.
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.