The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.