"It is precisely because the force of things always tends to destroy equality that the force of legislation must always tend to maintain it."

"A nation can only be happy when it has a good government, and a good government can only be had when the people are well educated."

"To be ourselves is the most difficult thing in life."

"Laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing."

"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."