good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion; the more they attempt to show themselves, the more they are entangled.

if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.