Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.