Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.