I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.