Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.

Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.