Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

Kindness is virtue itself.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.