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

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.

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

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