The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!