“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
