Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.