The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.