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

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority, though it be confided to masses, cannot be trusted without positive limitations, men in bodies being but an aggregation of the passions, weaknesses and interests of men as individuals.

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

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.

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

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.