On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
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.
The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.