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

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.

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.

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

To change your perspective, you have to change your perspective.

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.

It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.

Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.