There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.