Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.