But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.