The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

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