A man's fate is his own temper.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

Turtle makes all men equal.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.