Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.