Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men.

A Convinced Man Differs From A Prejudiced Man As An Honest Man From A Liar.

It Is Bad To Be Oppressed By A Minority, But It Is Worse To Be Oppressed By A Majority.

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.

Every Thing Secret Degenerates, Even The Administration Of Justice; Nothing Is Safe That Does Not Show How It Can Bear Discussion And Publicity.

The Barbarians, Who Possessed No Books, No Secular Knowledge, No Education, Except In The Schools Of The Clergy, And Who Had Scarcely Acquired The Rudiments Of Religious Instruction, Turned With Childlike Attachment To Men Whose Minds Were Stored With The Knowledge Of Scripture, Of Cicero, Of St. Augustine; And In The Scanty World Of Their Ideas, The Church Was Felt To Be Something Infinitely Vaster, Stronger, Holier Than Their Newly Founded States.