Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.