There is always a best way of doing everything.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.