In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

A strong body makes the mind strong.