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

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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.

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.