There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.