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.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

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

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.