Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

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.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

Education is the cheap defense of nations.