Property can exist only under the guardianship of the State. - John Robert Seeley

The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, common religion, and common interest.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Men in general take up scheme after scheme, as circumstances suggest one or another, and therefore most biographies are compelled to pass from one subject to another, and to enter into a multitude of minute questions, to divide the life carefully into periods by chronological landmarks accurately determined, to trace the gradual development of character and ripening or change of opinions.