Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.