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.

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

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.