Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

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

There is no college for the conscience.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...