Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.