Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

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.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.