Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

There is a transcendent power in example.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.