The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this variety is undoubtedly lost in proportion to the degree of State interference.

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.