Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.

The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.