The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Death is a fearful thing.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.