Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. 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. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.