Cats ask plainly for what they want.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.