Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
Modesty and dew love the shade.
Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.