To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

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

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.