"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."

"All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God."

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by epigrams."

"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

"The greatest comfort of man in this life is the knowledge that he has done his duty."