The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. - Benjamin Disraeli

[T]he French Revolution, which has not yet ended, and which is certainly the greatest event that has happened in the history of man. Only the fall of the Roman Empire can be compared to it... Look at the Europe of the present day and the Europe of a century ago. It is not the same Europe. Its very form is changed.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life