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

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

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

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

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

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.