If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.