The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

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

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

[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.