Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

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

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

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.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.