Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.