Great men always pay deference to greater.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.