Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.