The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.
Only the home can found a state.
Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
There is a certain physiognomy in manners.
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.