The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into the administration of them in every function to which they are sufficient; they will err sometimes and accidentally, but never designedly, and with a systematic and persevering purpose of overthrowing the free principles of the government.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.