The originality of a subject is in its treatment.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.
A canter is the cure for all evil.
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.