The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.