No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.