All Quotes

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. ”

Soundness of understanding is connected with freedom of enquiry; consequently, opinion should, as far as public security will admit, be exempted from restraint. ”

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence. ”

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ”

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. ”

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse. ”

God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ”

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. ”

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. ”

We cannot do justice to the deeds of former times if we do not in some degree remove ourselves from the circumstances in which we stand and substitute those by which the real actors were surrounded. ”