"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."

"Good order is the foundation of all things."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

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

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

"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."

"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."

"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men."

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

"It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere."

"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people."

"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."

"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."

"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."

"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."

"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."

"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."

"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."

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

"The march of the human mind is slow."

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

"You can never plan the future by the past."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"To innovate is not to reform."

"He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"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."

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

"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."

"Falsehood is a perennial spring."

"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."

"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."

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

"Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants."