Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.