He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

Happiness is not the portion of man.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

The best is the enemy of the good.

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.