You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

The word impossible is not French.

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

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.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

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