💬 Quotes

"Man goes to man. He is neither gonul (frog) nor bullock. He is man. Let him go to his own people."

"My belly is heavier than yours, and yet I have not killed a little goat. I am an eater of clean things."

"Darkness covers the jungle, but Shere Khan the Big One is blind as a mole in the sun."

"Man-cub, they called me! Man-cub, they would call me in the futue. Well, I have returned to the man-pack."

"The greatest part of new nations have been unable to avoid the colonial yoke, and America is the only one which has been placed by Providence at a favorable moment to found a commonwealth."

"The people reign over the American political world as the Deity does over the universe. They are the cause and the aim of all things; everything comes from them, and everything is absorbed in them."

"In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of small enjoyments and petty pleasures, each of which taken separately cannot be called a great crime, but which together enervate, stunt, and depress the people."

"A democratic people is attached to equality at all times, but there are epochs when it is seized with a frantic passion for it; these are generally when the old social hierarchy, long threatened, completes its collapse."

"The American is impervious to a great number of notions, because he has his own settled opinions; he is full of knowledge, because he has made a vast accumulation of facts; but he is devoid of true philosophical method."

"There are many men in France who would willingly endure the despotism of an individual, but there are none who are ready to bear the regular and legal subordination of a hundred others."

"Ce que vous me dites paraîtra sans doute bizarre à bien des gens, mais il ne paraîtra pas extraordinaire à ceux qui ont du sentiment."

"La prudence ne sauroit garantir de tous les malheurs; il y a une destinée qu'on ne peut éviter."

"Il y a des passions qui troublent si fort le repos de la vie, que l'on auroit peine à y consentir si l'on avoit plus de raison."

"Si vous jugez sur les apparences en ma faveur, vous serez trompé, car ce n'est point par la vertu que je ne vous aime pas."

"Les passions peuvent me conduire, mais elles ne m'aveugleront pas au point de me faire oublier mon devoir."

"La confiance que vous avez en moi est digne de récompense, et je vous avouerai que vous avez de grands rivaux."

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."

"The secret source of Humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."