A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Where mystery begins religion ends.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.