Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.