Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

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.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

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