Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.