To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.
Leaders deal in hope.
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.