Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.