Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Speech happens to not be his language.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

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.

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.