The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

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

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

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

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.