Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.