There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.