Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.