He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

History is clarified experience.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.