Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Law, without force, is impotent.