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

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

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.