The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.