I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

No man does anything from a single motive.

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.