Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.