When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.