Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.