The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.