What a new face courage puts on everything!

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.