In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

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.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

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

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.