Royalty Is A Government In Which The

Royalty Is A Government In Which The Attention Of The Nation Is Concentrated On One Person Doing Interesting Actions. A Republic Is A Government In Which That Attention Is Divided Between Many, Who Are All Doing Uninteresting Actions. Accordingly, So Long As The Human Heart Is Strong And The Human Reason Weak, Royalty Will Be Strong Because It Appeals To Diffused Feeling, And Republics Weak Because They Appeal To The Understanding.

But Of All Nations In The World The English Are Perhaps The Least A Nation Of Pure Philosophers.

The Most Intellectual Of Men Are Moved Quite As Much By The Circumstances Which They Are Used To As By Their Own Will. The Active Voluntary Part Of A Man Is Very Small, And If It Were Not Economized By A Sleepy Kind Of Habit, Its Results Would Be Null.

A Princely Marriage Is The Brilliant Edition Of A Universal Fact, And, As Such, It Rivets Mankind.

The Mystic Reverence, The Religious Allegiance, Which Are Essential To A True Monarchy, Are Imaginative Sentiments That No Legislature Can Manufacture In Any People.