Justice, not the majority, should rule.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.