A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.