"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."

"Custom reconciles us to everything."

"Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it."

"The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."