The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Learn to cultivate your own garden.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.