I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.