How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
... 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.
No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.