It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

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

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.