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...
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none...
People crushed by laws have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are...
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
If you can be well without health you may be happy without virtue.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire...
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense and great expense may be an...
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
