Honesty is better than any policy.

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.