The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.