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

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.