Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.