An obedient wife commands her husband.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

All is race - there is no other truth.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.