Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.