True happiness comes from within, not from external achievements or possessions.

我追求的是消除自我，与宇宙合而为一。

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws to any other hands.