What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Hearts are stronger than swords.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.