The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.