Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.