What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.