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

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.