The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.