In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
Change, change,--we all covet change.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.
Where violence reigns, reason is weak.