We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.