Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
Let us cultivate our garden.
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.