Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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.
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.
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.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
Society is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Education is the cheap defence of nations.
Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing...
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
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