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.
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.
Change is constant in a progressive country.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
We moralize among ruins.
Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.