Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

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

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.