The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.