At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.