There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.