There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.