I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.