Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

Education is the best provision for old age.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.