A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.