The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.
The world belongs to the energetic.
True wit never made us laugh.
It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .
The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.