 Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. |
| A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. |
| 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. |
| No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. |
| The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. |
| 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. |
| Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. |
| Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar. |
| In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. |
| There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. |
| The traveller has reached the end of the journey! |
| It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. |
| But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. |
| Our patience will achieve more than our force. |
| I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. |
| Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. |
| It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. |
| You can never plan the future by the past. |
| Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. |
| Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. |
