The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.