Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful to his country, is due from every individual. It is not easy perhaps to say of what length exactly that tour should be, but we may safely say of what length it should not be. Not of our whole life, for instance, for that would be to be born a slave-not even of a very large portion of it.

Everything yields to diligence.