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

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

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

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.

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

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.