Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

The heart is the best logician.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.