But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.