God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.