The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
You can never plan the future by the past.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.