Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.