There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.