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

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

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

A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.