Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
To innovate is not to reform.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
