Justice, not the majority, should rule.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.