Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.