Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
The populace drags down the gods to their own level.