The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.