Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them

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Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

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Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness

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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild

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Freedom is alone the unoriginated birthright of man; it belongs to him by force of his humanity, and is in dependence on the will and coaction of every other, in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom

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Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form

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Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind

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Do what is right, though the world may perish

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By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man

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Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence

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