It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

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

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

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

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Cats ask plainly for what they want.