Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.