From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.