Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.