Government is essentially immoral.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.