The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it: enthusiasm signifies God in us.

The more I see of other countries the more I love my own.

Divine wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Genius has no sex!

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

One must choose in life between boredom and torment.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.