"All errors which are likely to do harm, are the proper objects of animadversion, and may be justly censured."

"The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind."

"All that makes existence valuable to any one, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people."

"The only freedom, therefore, which is of real value, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way."

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things."