Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent.

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.