Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.