Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.