He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.