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

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

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

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

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

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.