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

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.

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 first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.