1. “Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.”
2. “Contentment is better than divinations or visions.”
3. “Delay in justice is injustice.”
4. “Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry os life itself.”
5. “There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.”
6. “The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.”
7. “Hope is the mother of faith.”
8. “Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.”
9. “The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.”
10. “We cannot be contented because we are happy and we cannot be happy because we are contented.”
11. “There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.”
12. “The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.”
13. “Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.”
14. “A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.”
15. “Experience is our only teacher in war and peace.”
16. “Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.”
17. “Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.”
18. “Great men always pay deference to greater.”
19. “It is easy to look down on others; to look own on ourselves is the difficulty.”
20. “In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.”
