To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights.

There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...