Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.