I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.