Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.