An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

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

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

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

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.

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.

God help the patient.