In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.