No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.