There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

Absolute power demoralizes.

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.