Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another'; a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.