Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

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.

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.