Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.