When joy disappears, look for your mistake

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.