The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Whatever is popular deserves attention.