Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.