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

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

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

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.