To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

Life should be enjoyed, you know. That’s an important lesson to keep in mind. It will help bring him through the darkness and into the light.

Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.