With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself