The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.