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 better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

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.

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

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.