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

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.

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

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

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

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.