When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

Justice renders to every one his due.