What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.

Morality is the object of government.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.