To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Adventures are to the adventurous.
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.