Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Every advantage has its tax.

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.