The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.