How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.