One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.