Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.