The sense of duty pursues us ever.
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.
A thinker is a person.
There is a certain physiognomy in manners.