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.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.