Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men.

Power Tends To Corrupt, And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

Democracy Generally Monopolizes And Concentrates Power.

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.

Be Not Content With The Best Book; Seek Sidelights From The Others; Have No Favourites.

A Wise Person Does At Once, What A Fool Does At Last. Both Do The Same Thing; Only At Different Times.