A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.