Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.