"The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species, it always acts right."

"Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for, never intending to go beyond speculation, it costs nothing to have it magnificent."

"The true politician, when he is called to the helm of a state, is to know how to preserve it from the storms, and not to expose it to them."

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

"A great empire and little minds go ill together."