All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

There are evils worse than death.