Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

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.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.