Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. - Titus Livius

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.