Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

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

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.