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

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

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