The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.