I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.