I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.