If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.