By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. |
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. |
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. |
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. |
Avarice is the vice of declining years. |
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. |
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. |
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. |
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. |
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. |
The public is wiser than the wisest critic. |
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. Topics: Government |
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. |
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. |