"...when I see animals born free and despising captivity break their heads against the bars of their prison; when I se…"

"When alone, I have never known what it is to feel weary, even when I am entirely unemployed; my imagination fills up …"

"Chère amie, ne savez-vous pas que la vertu est un état de guerre, et que, pour y vivre, on a toujours quelque combat …"

"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."

"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,— Days of absence, I am weary: She I love is far away."

"L'accent est l'âme du discours."

"All that time is lost which might be better employed."

"As a general rule—never substitute the symbol for the thing signified, unless it is impossible to show the thing itse…"

"Let's go dance under the elms: Step lively, young lassies. Let's go dance under the elms: Gallants, take up your pipes."

"An honest man nearly always thinks justly."