I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.