It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.