Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.