The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Books wind into the heart.