Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.