A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.