All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

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.

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

I am myself by inclination an investigator.

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.