Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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.
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.