No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

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.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of 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.

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

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