The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.