“The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.”

“Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”

“He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.”

“Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?”

“The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman is this: The one thinks everything right that is French, while the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.”

“Grace is rhwe absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incogruity.”

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.(1778 - 1830)”