Language makes infinite use of finite media.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.

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

If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.