For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

The dice of God are always loaded.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.