The more you do, the more you can do.

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.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

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