Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

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

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

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.