I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Virtue has needs of limits.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.