Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.