Aristocracy is always cruel.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

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.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

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.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.