Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men.

Writers The Most Learned, The Most Accurate In Details, And The Soundest In Tendency, Frequently Fall Into A Habit Which Can Neither Be Cured Nor Pardoned,-the Habit Of Making History Into The Proof Of Their Theories.

There Are Two Things Which Cannot Be Attacked In Front: Ignorance And Narrow-mindedness. They Can Only Be Shaken By The Simple Development Of The Contrary Qualities. They Will Not Bear Discussion.

Democracy Generally Monopolizes And Concentrates Power.

I Exhort You Never To Debase The Moral Currency Or To Lower The Standard Of Rectitude, But To Try Others By The Final Maxim That Governs Your Own Lives, And To Suffer No Man And No Cause To Escape The Undying Penalty Which History Has The Power To Inflict On Wrong.

Every Error Pronounces Judgment On Itself When It Attempts To Apply Its Rules To The Standard Of Truth.