Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
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.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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.
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.
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.
You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
A great empire and little minds go ill together.