Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.