Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.