I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

True wit never made us laugh.

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.