A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.