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.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

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

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

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

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.