The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.