She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their poets.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.