Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

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

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

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

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

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.