Though Fortune now be smiling, it behoves To look ahead, nor e'er to trust in Fortune. - Alexis de Tocqueville

I am unacquainted with a more deplorable spectacle than that of a people unable either to defend or to maintain its independence.

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

Our society is much more alienated from the theology than it is from the philosophy of Christianity. As our religious beliefs have become less strong and our view of the life hereafter less clear, morality has become more concerned with the legitimacy of material needs and pleasures. This is the idea that I think the followers of Saint-Simon expressed by saying that the flesh must be rehabilitated. It is probably the same tendency that, for some time now, appears in the writings and in the doctrines of our moral philosophers.