"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…"

"I love my friends, but I do not want to absorb them."

"No man ever had a more agreeable dwelling place than this. It was a proper palace, a fit abode for a king."

"The greatest of evils is to be guilty of none."

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."