Ambition is not a vice of little people.
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.