Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.