Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
The most seditious is the most cowardly.
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.