It is an easy and a vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them, but, essentially, to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

In politics, as in religion, it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed than for those who deny the whole of it.

It is only when the rich are sick, that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.