The grand instructor, time.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.