Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.