Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.