In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.