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

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

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.