Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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 most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.