Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.