Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

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.

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

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

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

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.