Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
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, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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 over the substance of original justice.
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 of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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 at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.