The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
Justice is the right of the weakest.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!