As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

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.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.