Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

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

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

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

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.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.