The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age.

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.