Sanity is madness put to good use.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.