The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

But as in wailing there’s nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

In times of change, learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.

When I can’t talk sense, I talk metaphor.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.