Never despair but if you do work on in despair.
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of...
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it...
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian...
Society can overlook murder adultery or swindling it never forgives...
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
All human laws are properly speaking only declaratory they have no power...
The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
There is but one law for all namely that law which governs all law the law...
It is generally in the season of prosperity that men discover their real...
To tax and to please no more than to love and to be wise is not given to men.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition men have...
Inductive reason which alone makes man master of his environment is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.