It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.