Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.