Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.