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

Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

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