The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Only the heart without a stain knows ease.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.