We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason..

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think..

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity..

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses..

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is ….

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing..

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the c….

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge..

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style..

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappe….

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a….

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets..

You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews..

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism..

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence..

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvem….

Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly….

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, co….

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality..

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortun….

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires..