The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

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 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.

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