Plenty of powder will be shot away to no purpose--plenty of efforts without result, and expenditure which only tends to impoverish.

There is no race so little qualified to make progress, and to gain civilization and culture in exchange for capital, as the Slavonic.

All that those people yonder have in their idleness acquired by the oppression of the ignorant masses they waste in foolish diversions.

With us, only a few of the specially privileged classes act thus, and the nation can bear with it if necessary; but there, the privileged classes claim to represent the people.

As if nobles and mere bondsmen could ever form a state! They have no more capacity for it than that flight of sparrows on the hedge.