Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.
Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.
Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.
If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.
I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.