Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.