The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

No society can ever be so large as one man.