Force cannot give right.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.