The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.