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.
Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
The heart is the best logician.
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.