Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.