The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

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

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.