Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.