My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.