Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

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.

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

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 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.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

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.