The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

The revenge of a guilty woman is implacable.

The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical governors. The temple of the Celestial Venus at Carthage, whose sacred precincts formed a circumference of two miles, was judiciously converted into a Christian church; and a similar consecration has preserved inviolate the majestic dome of the Pantheon at Rome.

[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.