Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.