The highest virtue is always against the law.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.