Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

Power is not happiness.

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

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.