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.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

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