The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Habit is stronger than reason.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

Docility is the observable half of reason.