Information upon points of practical politics.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.