It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.