Power is not happiness.

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

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

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

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.