But I have no hope that things will go right, or that men will think reasonably, until they have first exhausted every mode of human folly.

I still think Louis Napoleon the d--d'est rascal in Europe (for which again you will be angry with me), and that his reception the other day in London will hereafter appear in history as simply the most shameful episode in the English annals.

Thinking this, you will not consider my opinion good for anything, and therefore I need not inflict it upon you.
Humbugs, however, will explode in the present state of the atmosphere, and the Austrian humbug, for instance, is at last, God be praised for it, exploding.

John Bull, I suppose, will work himself into a fine fever about that; but he will think none the worse of the old ladies in Downing Street who are made fools of: and will be none the better disposed to listen to people who told him all along how it would be.

However, in the penal fatuity which has taken possession of our big bow-wow people, and in even the general folly, I see great ground for comfort to quiet people like myself; and if I live fifteen years, I still hope I shall see a Republic among us." -- * April 30th, 1855.
-- Froude's Republicanism did not last.