"I may be an enthusiast, but I am not a visionary."

"The greatest characters have always been the most amiable."

"It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature."

"I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage."

"I have a soul that is too proud to stoop to any meanness."