Literature is eavesdropping.

Revolutions go not backward.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.