A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.