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 characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

We cannot learn men from books.