There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Revolutions go not backward.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Nature hates calculators.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

We are wiser than we know.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.