Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

The gentleman is a man of truth.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.