I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

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

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 secret of success is constancy to purpose.