“When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.”

“All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.”

“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.”

“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

“This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it to his will.”

“I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind.”