All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.