Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.