A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.