Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.