We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.