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.

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

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

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

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

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

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