The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers and salaries merely to make partisans, and for increasing, by

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country... and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.