My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

The democratic election you refer to was compromised.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.