To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.