The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

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

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

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.