“Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few”

“Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another”

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other”

“The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished”

“One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit”