Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.