Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.