"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, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs"
"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business"
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact"
"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"
"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors"
"Our patience will achieve more than our force"
"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing"
"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government"
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion"
"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare"
"Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants"
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle"
"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time"
"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority"
"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own"
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination"
"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed"
"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man"
"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature"
"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"
"Tyrants seldom want pretexts"
"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none"
"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men"
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting"
"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely"
"To innovate is not to reform"
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it"
