Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.