The ocean is an object of no small terror.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.