Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.