The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.