The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?

As for health, consider yourself well.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.