Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.