Good order is the foundation of all things.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.