Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

The mills of God grind slowly.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.