Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

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.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

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

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

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.