Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.