A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

The threshold is the place of expectation.

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.