“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do”

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones”

“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it”

“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature”

“Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. ”