A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.