No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
I never know how to worship until I know how to love.
Customs represent the experience of mankind.
Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.