Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

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

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.