Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me

Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.