Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own..

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regu….

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which tau….

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love..

Whatever is popular deserves attention..

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself..

The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinc….

The frivolous work of polished idleness..

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions..

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor..

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth ….

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity..

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are..

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language..

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank..

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations..