I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

Necessity does everything well.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.