All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.