Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice:. None is a slave whose acts are free.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much bus…

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can se…