Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

Language is the light of the mind

The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.