The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives.

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.