People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.