Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.