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.

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

Power is not happiness.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

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