I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

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.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

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

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.