If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.