There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

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

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

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

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

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

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

The Saviour, sacrifice his life as offering for sin.

Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Good deeds move you towards the right place, at the right time, and with the right people. When you succeed in good things, ultimately you will experience enlightenment/ascension.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

I just don’t want to get hit, that’s all. I want to win without getting hit.

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.