No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

A man lives by believing something.

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.