It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.