It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.