Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

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.