All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

The law is the public conscience.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.