Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.