None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.