The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.