The egotism of woman is always for two.

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.