Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
Reason and truth will prevail at last
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.