History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!
The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Dangers by being despised grow great.
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) wi...
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...
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.