What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.