"It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump."

"The government is best which governs not at all."

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"Sometimes I almost think that I am a pagan, and that I would rather worship the sun than any other god."