Power is not happiness.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

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.