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.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

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

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.