Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought