I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

A born king is a very rare being.