No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

All around you everything is on the move.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.