There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.