Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.