The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.