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.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

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.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.