Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

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

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.