Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

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.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.