Fancy Brings Us As Many Vain Hopes

It Is Usually More Important How A Man Meets His Fate Than What It Is.

The Legislator Should Keep Two Things Constantly Before His Eyes: 1. The Pure Theory Developed To Its Minutest Details; 2. The Particular Condition Of Actual Things Which He Designs To Reform.

Happiness Is So Nonsynonymous With Joy Or Pleasure That It Is Not Infrequently Sought And Felt In Grief And Deprivation.

When We Are Not Too Anxious About Happiness And Unhappiness, But Devote Ourselves To The Strict And Unsparing Performance Of Duty, Then Happiness Comes Of Itself - Nay, Even Springs From The Midst Of A Life Of Troubles And Anxieties And Privations.

Government, Religion, Property, Books, Are Nothing But The Scaffolding To Build Men. Earth Holds Up To Her Master No Fruit Like The Finished Man.