For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant.It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

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