You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

To innovate is not to reform.