Solemnity Is The Shield Of Idiots

The English Are Busy Folk; They Have No Time In Which To Be Polite.

Vanity Is As Advantageous To A Government As Pride Is Dangerous. To Be Convinced Of This We Need Only Represent, On The One Hand,the Numberless Benefits Which Result From Vanity, As Industry, The Arts, Fashions, Politeness, And Taste; And On The Other, The Infinite Evils Which Spring From The Pride Of Certain Nations, A Laziness, Poverty, A Total Neglect Of Everything.

Talent Is A Gift Which God Has Given Us Secretly, And Which We Reveal Without Perceiving It.

With Truths Of A Certain Kind, It Is Not Enough To Make Them Appear Convincing: One Must Also Make Them Felt. Of Such Kind Are Moral Truths.

Christians Are Beginning To Lose The Spirit Of Intolerance Which Animated Them: Experience Has Shown The Error Of The Expulsion Of The Jews From Spain, And Of The Persecution Of Those Christians In France Whose Belief Differed A Little From That Of The King. They Have Realized That Zeal For The Advancement Of Religion Is Different From A Due Attachment To It; And That In Order To Love It And Fulfil Its Behests, It Is Not Necessary To Hate And Persecute Those Who Are Opposed To It.