Knowledge is the only elegance.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.