The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.