There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Democracy passes into despotism.

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.