The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to you briefly every day of the common wealth, without distracting you from your private affairs.

The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner, they found hospitals, prisons and schools.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.