A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

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.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.