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.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.