After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.