Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

Power is the first good.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.