The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.