To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

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

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

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.

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