"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."

"The only antidote to materialism is simplicity."

"I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which al…"

"Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."

"The only way to get a friend is to be one."