It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.