Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.