objects Quotes

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.”

“Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.”

“A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.”

“Affection, like melancholy, magnifiestrifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscop”