I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.