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.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

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.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.