If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

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.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.