The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.
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.