Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.