God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

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

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.