Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.