Good order is the foundation of all things.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

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

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.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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

You can never plan the future by the past.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

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.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

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

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

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

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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.

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

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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