Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

A man perfects himself by working.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.