Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.