We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

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

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.