Be Not Content With The Best Book;

Feudalism Made Land The Measure And The Master Of All Things.

Fanaticism Displays Itself In The Masses; But The Masses Were Rarely Fanaticised; And The Crimes Ascribed To It Were Commonly Due To The Calculations Of Dispassionate Politicians.

If Some Great Catastrophe Is Not Announced Every Morning, We Feel A Certain Void. Nothing In The Paper Today, We Sigh.

If The Past Has Been An Obstacle And A Burden, Knowledge Of The Past Is The Safest And The Surest Emancipation.

Power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men, Even When They Exercise Influence And Not Authority: Still More When You Superadd The Tendency Or The Certainty Of Corruption By Authority.