Chance is a nickname for Providence.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

Success makes success, like money makes money.