If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Freedom is participation in power.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.