“It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.”

“No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.”

“Every man makes a god of his own desire”

“Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.”

“Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.”

“All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.”

“The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.”