Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.