Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

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

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

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

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

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.