Revolutions are not made, they come.
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
I think the first duty of society is justice.
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.