A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.