Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.
A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.
The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.