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.

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

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

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

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.