One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

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.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.