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.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

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.

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

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

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

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