There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
The less men think, the more they talk.
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.