The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.