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.

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

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.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.