There are things about which universal sentiment is not to be gulled.

The human race, taken as a whole, is an honest man.
Even by those about you you are judged.

There is not one of your domestics, whether in gold lace or in embroidered coat, valet of the stable, or valet of the Senate, who does not say beneath his breath that which I say aloud.

What I proclaim, they whisper; that is the only difference.

You are omnipotent, they bend the knee, that is all.