The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.