The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.