A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.

It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.