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

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

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.

The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

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

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

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