Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

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

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

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.