It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.