We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.