Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books