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

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.