The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.