A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.