The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.