A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.