Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.
Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.